'Toxic Tush Doc' jailed for butt injection death

Oneal Ron Morris, left and centre, and Shatarka Nuby, right, who died of a series of toxic injection Morris administered. (Miami Police/AP/Screengrab via CBS Miami)

A US transgender woman known as the "Toxic Tush Doc" has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars after one of her "patients" died of a noxious chemical mixture injected into her backside.

Emotions flared in the Broward County, Miami courtroom as Oneal Ron Morris, 36, was jailed for the manslaughter of Shatarka Nuby, 31, who perished after a prolonged period of agony.

Like Morris's other victims, Nuby, who CBS Miami reports died in a Tallahassee prison, was under the impression she was being injected with high-grade silicone, but instead was administered a mixture of superglue and the rubber sealant "Fix-A-Flat".

"You gave us your word that the products you was using was A-1 products," victim Kisha Jones, who was among four women to fall ill from the injections, shouted at Morris in court.

"And come to find out they were not…greed really took over, because you was pocketing the money from every victim."

Morris, who was friends with Nuby, said she had not deliberately caused Nuby's death. Nuby's aunt said while the jail sentence was just, it wouldn't erase the pain of the family's loss.

"There’s no closure. Putting her in jail won't bring her back," Juanita Nuby said. "This is a court of man, all you can do is put her away and teach her a lesson."

The dead woman's mother, Sherri Pitts, was less forgiving when she spoke to reporters outside the court.

"My daughter died the most inhumane death, 18 months she suffered with not knowing the full of what he put in her body," Mrs Pitts said. "The doctors couldn’t do anything until they knew what (she) put in her body."

According to the Sun Sentinel, Nuby, who was in jail for identity theft, paid Morris about $2600 for 10 injections between 2007 and 2010. She died in 2012.

Morris, who was not a licensed doctor, was sentenced to five years’ probation in addition the 10 years inside. She had previously served a year behind bars on related charges.

At a bail hearing in 2015, Morris, who denied injecting patients with mineral water, oil, cement, silicone, glue and sealant said she was "not a danger to society".

"This whole experience has taught me a lot about how people will try to destroy my life," she told the judge. "I just want to put it behind me."